Manchester is usually one of the busiest cities in the UK on New Year’s Eve but this year it looked very different…
Scenes of partyign revellers and packed bars seemed a somewhat distant memory for those in the city.
A photographer whose viral snap five years ago was hailed as capturing ‘Modern day Britain’ last night retraced his steps to take the same picture in a post-Covid era.
Snapper Joel Goodman tweeted the snap last night along with the caption “#fiveyearsagotonight” along with a number of other pics of clubbers and party-goers in the city centre, taken in 2015.
As of New Year's Eve, Greater Manchester was among the large swathes of the country moving into the highest level of coronavirus restrictions.
New year celebrations across the country were watered down with people told to stay a t home.
Only on the Isles of Scilly, the only part of England still in Tier 1, could punters head out for a few drinks to usher in 2021.
There has been a rise in cases in some areas across Greater Manchester, with rates ranging from 152 cases per 100,000 people in Bolton and 229 cases per 100,000 people in Bury for the week ending December 25.
However, this is well below the national average transmission rate of 367.4.
The latest announcement also saw Lancashire, Cheshire, Warrington, North East, Nottingham, Birmingham, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire join Greater Manchester in moving up from Tier 3 to Tier 4.
